So here's the deal. For the past couple of months, customers using our applicant tracking software have been asking for an efficient way to acknowledge candidates that don't make the cut. At first blush, this seemed easy enough. But, as our product team began researching and designing the feature, all sorts of complexities became evident.

Some interesting questions were raised. Questions like:

• What if a candidate has applied to or is assigned to more than one job? And. What if she is active on multiple other jobs?
• Who should send thank you letters? Should hiring managers be able ...

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by Steve Hazelton, Head of Products, Newton Software

“Please contact support.” Makes you cringe, doesn’t it? At Newton we encourage people to contact support—by email or phone. No, I’m not kidding.

We call it “Support Driven Design”. I’ll explain this concept in just a bit, but first I’d like to give you some background on how we came to believe that free technical support results in better recruiting software: it makes it easier to use, faster to deploy, and paradoxically, makes supporting your customers cost less (which in our case means we can sell our ...

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Newton Software, a startup building innovative, easy-to-use, applicant tracking software, presented to a packed house last night at DLA Piper’s Silicon Valley headquarters. The event, a monthly showcase of new technology startups, drew a diverse crowd of Silicon Valley engineers, business people, vendors, lawyers and venture capitalists. Newton was among the 4 lucky startup companies selected to demo their applications this month. As the co-founders of Newton led the audience through a short demo of their product, it became evident that design and usability are indeed the knockout features of their system. Newton is designed to help you organize ...

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Wouldn’t it be nice if you had an applicant tracking system that would store resumes in one place that you could search easily any time? How great would it be have applicants apply to one place? You could finally get rid of all of those email folders.  And, how helpful would it be to be able to automatically track where all of your applicants are coming from?

Newton is recruiting software that makes it easy.

Make it easy for applicants to apply for jobs right on your company’s website. Sign up for Newton and you’ll get a ...

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We believe recruiting software doesn't need to be complicated. We designed Newton to be the easiest-to-use, most thoughtful applicant tracking software available.

Currently, Newton is designed for enterprises.  We are releasing a version of Newton for RPO's soon.  In fact, we are accepting beta customers now.

We are currently designing a product for recruiting agencies.  This edition will be available mid-2010.

Stay Tuned

To say that I think a lot about recruiting and hiring is an understatement. Before I co-founded a technology company that builds recruiting software, my business partner and I, started and ran a couple of recruiting firms, an RPO and over the years managed dozens of corporate recruiting departments. In addition to helping countless other organizations hire, we've had to build quite a few of our own teams in the past ten years. Along the way, we've developed a successful interviewing methodology that we've employed both internally and externally for dozens of our clients.

While hiring remains ...

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Last week, Recruiter, a UK-based recruiting website, ran a story focusing on Newton's analytics capabilities. The article discusses our real-time recruiting metrics, our upcoming release of an RPO product and makes mention of some of our customers using Newton internationally.

This is not the first time Newton Software has attracted attention on the other side of the pond. Earlier this year, Sue Weekes, a columnist for the UK's Recruiter magazine featured Newton in a story highlighting Newton's ease-of-use. The story discusses Newton's emphasis on designing recruiting software that even managers will want to use.

Newton Software has been selected to present at the Silicon Valley New Tech MeetUp on Tuesday, November 3rd. Joel Passen, VP of Marketing, will lead entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers, and tech enthusiasts on a 5 minute live tour of Newton, their popular applicant tracking software. The Newton Software product team will be on hand fielding questions following the presentation.

The Silicon Valley New Tech Meetup is a series of monthly events for techies, recruiters, investors, journalists and anyone else who just wants to see the hottest new technology in the Valley up close and personal. At 4,200 Members strong and ...

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"We were not able to identify your contact e-mail address. Your login e-mail address will be used as your contact e-mail address instead. Please be aware that this contact e-mail address will be used to contact you."

The message above was sent to a prospective candidate from an applicant tracking system -not ours. This system is managing a fortune 500 company's careers site. Yikes! It can hardly be debated that enterprise software is way too complicated and for the most part, pretty thoughtless when it comes to user experience. The message above is a perfect example. The expensive applications ...

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Newton is easy-to-use, web-based applicant tracking software that uses smart technology to simplify and improve recruiting. We are adding some video functionality to our web site and are producing a series of videos that give people a good look at our product. Our goal is to of course show off our product but, we want to help people qualify our product so they can make more of an evaluation before they spend teir time with us - want to make buying applicant tracking software easier.

Currently, we sell to corporations. In late November, we are releasing a product for RPO's ...

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Last week we joined the Silicon Valley chapter of the NCHRA at Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, CA. The evening event billed as the Summer Social brought together members of the regional HR community including some interesting guest speakers and local vendors.

We want to quickly share some of our takeaways from the event.

Project Hired is a great organization and it's time to get involved
For those of you not familiar with Project Hired, it's time to learn more about them. Project Hired's mission is to assist individuals with disabilities to gain and sustain employment, in partnership ...

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Pulling from the emerging movement of evidence-based management, Newton helps people answer important questions that arise in recruiting programs with real-time data. Simply put, Newton helps people solve problems and make decision based on the most up-to-the-second information available.

Next week we are releasing the newest version of Newton Analytics. Expect a formal announcement on September 23rd. In the meantime, here is a sneak preview.

Joel Passen, interviewed by Bill Vick, one of the recruiting industry’s top influencers, talks about Newton Software and emerging trends like social recruiting and mobile. Joel also discusses the trend towards enhanced usability and some of the issues that are catching his attention in the applicant tracking software space.

Why build more recruiting software?  Isn't there enough?  

No, not if existing systems don't solve the problems.

Recently, I received a request from an industry analyst to outline our history. Unknowingly, she made a joke about how it shouldn't take too long to put something together because we just started the company in January 2009. Little did she know. But, how would she know? No one here has really sat down and tried to chronicle the genesis of Newton. Frankly, we have been a little busy. There is, in fact, quite a bit of history though - almost ...

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“You better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone. For the times they are a-changin’”

Bob Dylan

The Fishbowl

A couple of weeks ago I learned that my co-workers call the office that I share with our CEO, “The Fishbowl”. The Fishbowl is the nerve center of Newton Software.  Given our small footprint, the Fishbowl acts as the design studio, front office, communications center and test lab. Sometimes our co-workers might say it more resembles an ultimate fighting iron cage, or a badger den, but for now we’ll leave it at The Fishbowl.

A while back, I ...

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“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools.” Marshall McLuhan

Yes, this is really us.

I  was at a barbeque in San Francisco this weekend and while everyone agreed that it’s nice that summer has finally arrived, our conversation inevitably meandered into talk of work and our summer work intentions.  Alex, a partner in a small marketing consultancy, remarked how he planned to lay low and enjoy the summer, taking some time off to relax.  “After all,” remarked Alex, “No one is doing anything this summer ...

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UNBOUND Technologies offers marketers an unparalleled understanding of consumers and influencers inside the social networking ecosystem. UNBOUND enables users to fully grasp the size, depth and scope of the social media landscape, allowing marketers to discover and engage consumers where they learn, communicate and interact - online via social networks.

Because of the insights created by UNBOUND's totally unique data, detailing how more than 260 million users utilize and organize on social networks, marketers can generate new ideas and provoke conversations.  With UNBOUND's service companies can analyze the impact of their marketing and advertising messages and spend to influence ...

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Newton Software has debuted the Newton® Affiliate Program, a third-party sales program for its smart, easy-to-use, recruiting technology, Newton®. The program allows qualified individuals to refer Newton® to friends, contacts, and companies and earn a percentage of the revenue generated from each sale. Ideal affiliate partners include agency recruiters, contract recruiters, human resources consultants, and other service providers.

Interested parties can sign up for the program on the Newton Software website. Approved affiliates will receive a unique code via email.  Approved Newton® affiliates can then distribute their code to interested parties.  When a company becomes a paying customer of Newton ...

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